V. "O where are you going?" by W. H. Auden
V. "O where are you going?" by W. H. Auden

V. “O where are you going?”

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V. "O where are you going?" by W. H. Auden

Release Date
Thu Oct 01 1931
Performed by
W. H. Auden
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The questions asked in the first three stanzas all receive answers in the final stanza:

Reader: “O where are you going?”
Rider: “Out of this house”

Fearer: “O do you imagine that dusk will delay… your looking discover…your footsteps feel?”
Farer: “Yours never will”

Horror: “O what was that bird?”...

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V. “O where are you going?” Annotated

"O where are you going?" said reader to rider,
"That valley is fatal where furnaces burn,
Yonder's the midden whose odours will madden,
That gap is the grave where the tall return."

"O do you imagine," said fearer to farer,
"That dusk will delay on your path to the pass,
Your diligent looking discover the lacking,
Your footsteps feel from granite to grass?"

"O what was that bird," said horror to hearer,
"Did you see that shape in the twisted trees?
Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly,
The spot on your skin is a shocking disease."

"Out of this house"—said rider to reader,
"Yours never will"—said farer to fearer,
"They're looking for you"—said hearer to horror,
As he left them there, as he left them there.

V. “O where are you going?” Q&A

When did W. H. Auden release V. “O where are you going?”?

W. H. Auden released V. “O where are you going?” on Thu Oct 01 1931.

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